Perhaps more mildly infuriating is that the mods here seem to be on vacation

"the public can’t be trusted to provide decent seeds"

how on god's green earth do you manage to convince yourself that gatekeeping gardening is what you should spend your time on?

aggretsuko is a documentary

do you want to drive 3 hours to work every day?

so here's my "no stupid questions": How on god's green earth could you possibly afford tipping a barber 20%? Are american barbers dirt cheap or do you just actually consider it perfectly reasonable to pay closer to 100 bucks for someone to trim your hair?

I have to wonder if these are serious questions or just fishing for comments, because surely the point of seeking knowledge is utterly blatantly obvious??

When you know things you can use that knowledge to do stuff, that's.. that's how you're able to type out the questions: you learned how to read and write then used that knowledge to ask things.

And surely you already know some meaning to life: There are things that are enjoyable, that make you happy. Presumably you're seeking knowledge because it feels good to know things. Well there you go.

that's cool and all but in the span of like 5 years i've basically completely turned my life around and the absolute worst it ever felt was some DOMS when i wasn't used to the exercise..
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Yeah no this complete and utter nonsense, you can and should improve yourself without suffering, if you make yourself suffer you're probably doing it wrong.
Your body can experience pain for a reason, pain means you're causing damage and damage is bad. And if you constantly associate beneficial things with pain then you're literally conditioning yourself to dislike it, that's just operant conditioning which is one of the most basic behavioral things in general.

Pain isn't virtous; What's virtous is to be introspective, identify and acknowledge your flaws, then deal with them the best you can, seek help if you can't handle it on your own. That is how you improve yourself reliably and sustainably, without ending up bitter or literally physically broken because you took exercise too far.

You're the sculptor, but you're not marble; You're clay: and clay needs a delicate touch to sculpt, lest you squeeze too hard and ruin it.

soft men create hard men

"dieting" lmao, yeah that famously works so well.

i really don't think 28mph is a reasonable speed limit for something that's supposed to be a bicycle, there's no way to pedal that fast and hitting someone at that speed can very well be lethal.

That's not to say such vehicles should be banned or anything, but they should be counted as light mopeds and basically the only legal difference should be that they maybe don't require a registration. They should still require a license and helmet at the very least.

Just making the shared paths as wide as possible and segregating it with a painted line does a lot, shared paths are bog standard here in sweden and while obviously it's not ideal it does generally work perfectly fine and can scale up to handle pretty significant amounts of traffic.

If you can make the path 5m wide and give pedestrians 2m and cyclists 1.5m in each direction, that's comfortable for basically anyone even with cyclists going quite fast.

For reference: 10mph=16km/h, 15mph=24km/h, 20mph=32km/h, 28mph=45km/h

Over here 28mph is literally the speed limit for mopeds, it's frankly an insane speed to reach on anything with pedals and you should never be going that fast without at least some heavy clothing and a proper helmet that protects the side of the head and ideally has a visor.

I think something like 30-35km/h would be a sensible speed limit for american-style e-bikes, provided that goes along with a legal requirement to wear a helmet on such vehicles. It's fast enough that you can avoid riling up car drivers (and you can get places quickly) but slow enough that you'd hopefully avoid any debilitating injuries (provided you're wearing a helmet). I would however want them banned from many smaller bike paths, treating them as pseudo-mopeds.

And frankly 25km/h is slightly questionable as a speed limit for normal e-bikes, just nudging it down to 23km/h makes a big difference in how safe and comfortable it feels both for the rider and for those around them. I wouldn't be upset if they were limited to 20km/h, provided there's also the faster pseudo-moped class to serve as a complement.